Issue: Vol. IV, No. 2, August-October, 2025
Plough-song
The fragrance of the blue Sky
Breaks apart
With the shrinking of croplands
All veils of words
Erode away. Raindrops
Dripping through the leaky roof
Wipes off the cosmetics.
Peels off
All the rinds of songs
Foucault is meddling in
Meaninglessness
The inner wind
All are buried in the heart
The flame of the forest’s branch
Dancing in glee
The crammed Indian coral
The obsessed diary of colorful days
Dig out
Dig out
Raise the winds
of the flame of the forest and the Indian coral
Translated by Krishna Dulal Barua
An accomplished Assamese poet-critic and translator M Kamaluddin Ahmed (born 1966) is a University Professor. His poems have been included in collections published by Harper Collins and Penguin.
Krishna Dulal Barua is a prominent translator and writer based in Nagaon, Assam. He received the Katha Award for translation in 2005.